Jemima Wilkinson

Jemima Wilkinson (29 November 1758-1 July 1819) was an American Quaker and evangelist.

Biography
Jemima Wilkinson was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island in 1758 to a Quaker family. After a near-death experience from a high fever, she prooclaimed her body no longer female or male, but the "Spirit of Light", and she dressed in men's clothes, wore her hair in a masculine style, shunned gender-specific pronouns, and preached openly in Rhode Island and Philadelphia. She established the town of New Jerusalem on former Seneca lands in New York with 250 followers, and they obeyed the Ten Commandments and practiced sexual abstinence. She died in 1819.